Meanwhile more and more victims are contacting us, herewith a small selection.
Nobody takes responsibility for the suffering of these horses, the owners have to bear it all.

Most of the stories here are anonymous, names and other data are known by Group Nijhof.

Viper

The owner K. tells the sad story about Viper, a two year old stallion who started laming after being chipped and in the end did not survive the whole ordeal.

‘March first 2002 a black stallion, named Viper, was born. This was the first foal I’ve have ever seen being born and therefore it was a very emotional happening for me and Viper was of great sentimental value to me. As it turned out he had a real sweet personality.
Because we did not like the idea of chipping, we kept postponing it until April 13, 2004, that day he was finally being chipped. April 14, when we took him out of his stall, he was laming. We didn’t think too much of it and started walking him for the next couple of days and hoped the lameness would fade away. After a week there was still no change, in fact it seemed to get worse.
We called out the vet but he did not have a clue what caused the lameness and suggested we would take him to a equine hospital. After that we went to a couple of more equine hospitals but no one could clear us up about what caused Viper to lame. Some vets thought it could be wobblers disease but whatever it caused and how to fix it no one could tell us.
In the meantime Viper got worse. He started shaking his head, lost his coordination and could not walk a straight line anymore.
Finely the vets advised us to put him out in the pasture whole summer long and see what would happen.
Sadly enough Viper did not get any better. July 10, 2004 this young stalion completely lost his balance, fell over sideways and hit the fence.
The vet came but we already knew this would be the end. We all had the chance to say goodbye to him and then the vet put out of his misery.
I still miss him every single day, he’ll always have a place in my heart.
Viper, R.I.P. Boy!!’

Lady Santana

The horse that has been examined by vet drs. Eric Laarakkers shows a very painful spot right where the chip (micro transponder) has been injected. Bending the neck to the left is practically impossible. The horse is in constant pain and doesn’t know how to keep her head to relieve the pain.
Riding her has become dangerous and even when she relaxing in the meadow she shows signs of pain by constantly moving her head in all kinds of directions.
Conclusion vet: neurological damage as a result of injecting the microchip.

Click here for the letter the vet wrote considering this case-study.

Efrida, 13 years old, chipped when she was 8 years old

We have a thirteen year old Frisian mare called Efrida. We had her microchipped by our vet in 2001. In the summer of 2006 we gave her a green clay cleansing cure, hopefully to help with her sweet itch problems. One of the properties of green clay is that it drives out any foreign bodies.
To our amazement, in november, the microchip worked itself out to the surface of her neck and four weeks later, she lost it altogether. Knowing what I now know about microchipping, I am relieved that the chip has gone! But of course the damage has been done: she now has a lump of scar tissue!

Foal

Another victim. After injecting the chip (2005) the neck got badly infected.
The wound healed eventually but the horse still does not allow anyone to touch him in that place.

Mare, 4 years old, chipped when she was 2,5 years old

According the owner of this mare, no mistake was made by the vet who injected the chip.
Nevertheless, the mare has severe problems bending her neck to the left and that results in breaking out with her hindquarters to the right.
This horse has a constant visible spot of sweat running down her neck even when she’s standing still not doing anything at all.
The owner had big plans for her because of her beautiful exterior and fine movements but now she worthless for sports.


First picture is showing the mare after doing about 1 minute work on the long line. You can see the sweat running down her neck starting at the place where the chip has been injected.
Second picture is taken after 10 minutes work.

Foal, chipped in August 2006

Four weeks after being injected with a chip there is a big lump caused by infection on the neck of this foal as large as a tennis ball. The owner says the spot is very painful and the foal will not let anyone touch him in that area. The owners opinion: ‘It is obvious this foal is in pain. Identification with DNA is a much better option, then at least this would have never happened. I’m convinced DNA identification is a much better way preventing fraud in any way.

Jacky, Haflinger, chipped in the summer of 2004

The owner: ‘After the procedure of chipping Jacky did not want to be touched in that area no more and I could not ride him. 9 weeks my vet and I tried everything to make it better but had no luck. Eventually, thanks to a homeopath, I can ride him again but on the spot where he was chipped the manes have disappeared for ever.

Darinka, mare, 4 years old, chipped in 2003

Since she had been chipped there’s a lump in the exact spot and the horse has physical problems. Bending her neck to the left is hard for her.

Litho, gelding, 12 years of age

Since he has been injected with a chip there is a lump on the neck.
Physical problems unknown.

Problems in all-day practice of a horse dealer

The horse dealer: ‘I bought a pony from a breeder. She was being chipped a while before I bought her. I wanted to put her up for an auction so I had her checked by a vet but he could not trace the chip. The vet even went back to his car to get another chip reader but that didn’t make a difference. He checked the horse all over but the chip had gone.’

Note: Possibly the chip was still in place but defect. In a huge test ordered by the EU commission it came to surface that in the end only 80% of the microchips still function.
That leaves 20%!!!! defect and untraceable (read the EU rapport yourself).
Meaning, to locate the chip to be removed in slaughterhouses is impossible unless the whole horse body is being X-rayed (and do you see that happen in slaughterhouses) – meaning, they end up in our food as been proven in May 2005 in two cases in the Netherlands.
It’s very sad the government does not take this seriously and chooses to look the other way. Leaving meat-eating people in the danger consuming pieces of glass and metal.

Even the EU Commission does not think this is important. The conclusion of the test with more than 900.000 animals left the investigators saying the microchip is unsuitable for identifying animals which are being slaughtered in the EU. The EU still seems to pursue exactly that.

We also have films (recorded by ourselves).